Humor Brief

What better way to start a New Year than with a hearty laugh? You can share your joy by greeting everybody with these funny New Year quotes.

Eric Zorn
Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Bill Vaughan
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Mark Twain
New Year's Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

J. O'Rourke
Drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

Anonymous
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.

Jay Leno
Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year's resolution.

Oscar Wilde
Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Bill Vaughan
Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

Anonymous
A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one Year and out the other.

Joey Adams
May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions!



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For the Health of It:  For a New Year's resolution that we'd be glad to help you keep, how about this... In 2008, resolve to lighten up and laugh more!


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Humor Briefs are provided by the Humor & Health Association of WNY, an affiliate of The Wellness Institute. It's only about 4.3 laughs per month, but we hope it makes a difference. Have a fun(ny) story, quote, idea, or event to share? Please send it to us!